Opinion | ANC lacks coherent policy for deluge of undocumented migrants
Government does not have an accurate number of the people involved and so cannot provide adequate social services to themThe ANC’s social transformation committee recently stated that undocumented foreign nationals are placing a strain on social services.
When violent flare-ups have occurred between locals and undocumented migrants ANC politicians have been quick to condemn locals haughtily as xenophobically envious of migrants. This condemnation is based on ignorance and a patent laziness to study and understand what is really happening on the ground.
Now, with an election looming, the ANC is finally awakening from its long slumber on the issue. Yet it is friction arising out of these pressures that caused the violent flare-ups between locals and migrants in 2008, 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2017. Some ANC luminaries have wondered why South Africans show no gratitude to neighbouring countries, which harboured exiles during the liberation struggle. Yes, our neighbours harboured SA exiles, and we should be grateful for their generosity. That, however, does not mean SA should now entertain undocumented migrants in the greate numbers it is experiencing.
Most migrants are in SA because of political strife, famine and failed economies in their countries of origin. Rather than face up to their own shortcomings, some African leaders have conveniently jumped onto the “we harboured you” bandwagon to suit their own interests — certainly not those of their citizens.
In a heated meeting in Harare in 2015, former president Jacob Zuma was criticised by his SADC counterparts because of attacks on their nationals by South Africans. The most aggressive assault was from Mugabe. In that meeting, Zuma correctly asked his counterparts: why are their citizens in SA?
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